Revenge of the tailgated!

anewman

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

The worst drivers on the road are the lane 2 and lane 3 road hogs who refuse to pull over

Particularly those !!!!!! in the BMWs and Audis who move straight out to the outside lane and won't budge from there, you end up having to undertake them because they all clog up the outside lane in their £50k !!!!!! compensator.

If your car's that great you don't need to tailgate, once the person has had the opportunity to and has pulled back in you just put your foot down and let the 4 litre engine do the work.

If OTOH you're just some arrogant impatient loser in a 1.9 diesel...

cyclonebri1

blindmouse wrote: »

I am going against the grain here to say I prefer to just indicate left, slow right down, and let them past, then I just carry on enjoying the radio and thats that..... Life is too short to be stressed while I am driving.....

No sorry, you can't do that. Think of those that go after;)

joyfull

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

You knew the pothole was there and left it until the last possible moment to avoid it, deliberately, so that the following vehicle would hit it.

Another idiot.

No.

I simply avoided it. How could I have avoided it other than at 'the last possible minute'. I would have done the same if there had been no tailgater. There was no 'deliberate' dangerous driving on my part.

ithinkyourcrazy

I had a youngish lad in a modified saxo tailgating me most of the way home from uni earlier; usually I just let them get on with it and over take me when they want, but he didn’t. My sat nav said I was doing 59 in a 60 zone so I was hardly driving that slowly. In the end I just pulled over and let him past.
Tailgating is dangerous and annoying.
A thought I was having when driving this week- do some drivers just have one speed? Following a car all the way home the other way (leaving a huge gap btw) and no matter what the speed limit was they carried on at 45mph, didn’t slow down when we went through 30 zones with mobile speed cameras and didn’t go any faster when driving on an open road when the limit was 60. I see it a lot people just driving at their own speed no matter what the limit is and I think my mum may be one of these drivers!

Mister_aaa

ithinkyourcrazy wrote: »

I had a youngish lad in a modified saxo tailgating me most of the way home from uni earlier; usually I just let them get on with it and over take me when they want, but he didn’t. My sat nav said I was doing 59 in a 60 zone so I was hardly driving that slowly. In the end I just pulled over and let him past.
Tailgating is dangerous and annoying.
A thought I was having when driving this week- do some drivers just have one speed? Following a car all the way home the other way (leaving a huge gap btw) and no matter what the speed limit was they carried on at 45mph, didn’t slow down when we went through 30 zones with mobile speed cameras and didn’t go any faster when driving on an open road when the limit was 60. I see it a lot people just driving at their own speed no matter what the limit is and I think my mum may be one of these drivers!

Cruise control?

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

Innys wrote: »

While I don't condone what the OP did, the fact is if the tailgater had not been......erm.....tailgating, there would have been no issue.

Similarly, if the OP had, in fact, only seen the pothole at the last minute and swerved to avoid it, it wouldn't have mattered if the tailgater had maintained a sensible distance.

The OP clearly used this tactic to get the tailgater to back off and it worked. You could argue "two wrongs don't make a right", but I suspect very few people in the world believe in that, almost utopian, principle.

But that isn't what happened, is it?

Really, who gives a !!!! what the motorist behind you is doing? I don't. I prefer to spend my time looking out for real dangers.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

joyfull wrote: »

No.

I simply avoided it. How could I have avoided it other than at 'the last possible minute'. I would have done the same if there had been no tailgater. There was no 'deliberate' dangerous driving on my part.

!!!!!!!!. This is what you said:

"I was approaching a familiar and very deep pothole. A little swerve to the left, as usual, would avoid it. At the last second this is what I did. "

Not only are you an idiot, you're a lying idiot.

Flearoy

Never ceases to amaze me how otherwise reasonable people decide to vent their frustrations at life at other road users while driving.... Sad.

A guy I used to work with really hated tailgaters. He had great lane discipline - he wasn't a lane hogger at all. He also liked maltesers. He found one day that opening the sunroof and ejecting a malteser resulted in a spectacular, but non-damaging explosion of biscuity honeycomb on the windscreen of the tailgater.

I must at this point stress that this was an insane response and could have caused a huge accident if the tailgater panicked.

Rolandtheroadie

joyfull wrote: »

Oh well, in your eyes I'm flawed.

Are you perfect?

No, far from it. I will say however I dont sit up someones exhaust either. But I also know I wouldnt do something that could possibly cause an accident just because I am "wound up".

Where does it stop? pull over? confrontation? fight? death?

Its a form of road rage. Worse thing is, you cant even see it.

joyfull

It's been interesting to see how heated and personal these exchanges have got.

For my own peace of mind, and to ensure I don't contribute to the carnage on our roads I will take on board some of the pretty savage criticism by a minority of posters of my behaviour. I also note that there has been a lot of support.

I get 'wound up' by tailgaters because I feel threatened and intimidated by them. I feel chased & pursued and it's scary. I feel pushed to go at a speed that's doesn't feel safe for me and don't always know what to do if it's not safe to let them pass.

I have learned something. In future I will try not to react and simply do all I can to let them move on.